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This guide helps researchers evaluate whether a security or privacy project is a suitable fit for top-tier academic conferences like IEEE S&P. It covers critical fit tests, such as establishing a defensible threat model and ensuring end-to-end evidence closure. It also provides advice on SoK paper formats, routing among major security venues (USENIX, CCS, NDSS), and adhering to submission rules like one-year embargoes.

This comprehensive guide helps researchers determine the most appropriate venue for their networking research paper. It distinguishes between major conferences like INFOCOM (broad, analytical/optimization), ACM SIGCOMM (built systems, deployment story), and USENIX NSDI (artifact-heavy systems). Use it to route your work correctly before drafting.

A comprehensive guide for positioning security research submissions (e.g., for NDSS, USENIX). It teaches how to write the 'Related Work' section not as a mere literature review, but as a critical security argument that establishes genuine novelty (the 'delta') by distinguishing mechanisms, layers, and preconditions from prior art. Covers citation verification, handling concurrent work, and double-blind anonymity rules.

A comprehensive guide for security researchers to determine the optimal top-tier conference venue for their paper. It provides structured 'fit tests'—including the wire test, deployment envelope test, and adversary ownership test—and a routing table to assess whether the work belongs at NDSS, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, or related venues, maximizing the chance of successful publication.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting top-tier security conferences like NDSS. This skill helps determine manuscript fit, refine the academic framing, strengthen evidence, and understand venue-specific expectations (e.g., realistic attacker models, empirical validation). It serves as a strategic tool for conference submission planning, comparing submissions against related venues like USENIX Security and CCS.

A comprehensive guide for optimizing computer science manuscripts targeting the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). It covers core systems research fields (OS, networking, storage, security), defining the required evidence bar (built artifacts, clean evaluation), and re-framing the paper's contribution to align with top-tier systems venue expectations.

A specialized guide for assessing whether a storage systems or file system manuscript fits the USENIX FAST conference. It covers venue positioning, required evidence (realistic workloads, fault models), appropriate framing, and comparison methodologies necessary for top-tier systems conference submissions.

A comprehensive guide for positioning computer science manuscripts for top-tier security conferences like USENIX Security. It covers core topics (systems, network, privacy, software security), required evidence (rigorous artifact, measurement, vulnerability analysis), and strategic advice on framing the work to meet adversarial reviewer expectations. Ideal for authors preparing high-stakes academic submissions.

This skill acts as a comprehensive guide for authors targeting the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). It helps authors assess the fit of their research in networked, distributed, or cloud systems, providing strategic advice on paper reframing, required levels of evidence (e.g., real-scale deployment), and accurate positioning relative to closely related conferences like OSDI and SIGCOMM. It is a critical tool for optimizing conference submission chances.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide for authors targeting the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). It helps in positioning complex systems research, covering core scope areas like operating systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. It details how to frame the contribution, build evidence (artifacts, baselines), and distinguish the work from similar top-tier venues like SOSP and NSDI.

A comprehensive guide detailing the mandatory and optional evaluation phases for academic security artifacts, such as those required for USENIX Security. It covers Phase-1 (availability) checks and Phase-2 (functionality, reproducibility) requirements. Provides best practices for structuring code, managing technical hazards (e.g., dangerous-by-default behavior), and ensuring verifiable, reproducible results for peer review.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for authors responding to peer reviews and engaging with a shepherd during major security symposium cycles (like USENIX Security). It details the technical mechanics of writing effective rebuttals, addressing compliance gaps (e.g., ethics/disclosure), and managing limited revisions during the post-acceptance shepherding phase.